Sharry Potter

Happy Early Halloween! Wee. So my weekend was pretty fun. On Friday night, I went to the SF Mall with Emily and Melissa to look for parts of my slutty Harry Potter outfit. I found a cute corset top with a bra sewn into it! Vary naice. After we went shopping, Melissa and I ate at Out the Door in the mall foodcourt. Out the Door is just a slightly (but not much) cheaper and more casual Slanted Door. But irregardless, it was still QUITE delicious. We got the fried veggie spring rolls, glass noodles with dungeness crab, and glazed shrimp with onions. YUM. So good. After dinner we walked around Border's (I got two books and an iPod cover) and then watched SuperBad! I can't believe the movie is still out. I watched it on the day it opened and kind of forgot what happened... also I had a free movie ticket so what the hell. :)

Saturday, I woke up and went to the mall to get the finishing touches of my costume. But first I had to return a skirt I had bought off J.Crew (I bought two different sizes of the same skirt because I wasn't sure which one would fit) and eat lunch at SF Soup Company (yum chicken tortilla!). Then I found a cheap black short skirt from Guess ($9.90!) and classic stockings. Delightful! After I went home, took a nap, watched TV, and finally got ready around 6:30 pm. Melissa showed up at my place around 7:15-ish and we headed over to Emily's at 8 pm. We had pre-party drinks (okay, I won't lie... I had a glass of Pom juice and Emily and Melissa had pom/vodka) then we walked down to Velvet Cantina for dinner. Yum! I got steak tacos and rice. I also drank half of a margarita! Wooo. After dinner we took a cab to Delirium at 16th/Valencia and partied for awhile. It was hot in the back room and they played random 80s and 90s songs, but it was really fun to just dance and hang out. Around 1 am Melissa, Kathy, and I left the club and walked to Emily's house where I parked my car. The walk was QUITE long (especially since I was wearing very high heels) and there were two big hills. But overall, the walk wasn't too terrible.

Sunday... wow. Sunday was the laziest Sunday I've had in awhile. I woke up around 12:30 pm with a bad ass headache (is that what a hangover feels like? damn you dehydrated body!) and ate ramen for lunch with Ellen and Phill. Then I read my new book, The Golden Compass (which is really interesting!), and took a VERY long nap from like 4:30 - 8 pm. Yikes. I felt really cracked out. After a satisfyingly fattening McD's dinner, I just read and watched tv.

Lovely lazy Sunday.

Happy Early Halloween!

No conversion

Which is fine! I don't actually mind that I'm not getting converted as a permanent employee. I'm excited where I'm going to end up next :) Anyway... updates. Hm.

So! Sunday I met up with Melissa in Hayes Valley for brunch. We had meant to eat at Fritz, but unfortunately it's closed for renovation. Suck. So instead we had a deeelicious brunch at Absinthe. I got the croque madame (ham and cheese sandwich with an egg on top) and lemonade while Melissa got the banana blueberry pancakes with a mimosa. YUM. It was good. After brunch, we randomly wandered around Hayes and didn't buy anything. Wow! After I dropped Melissa off at home, I went to the apt to watch TV and take a nap. I woke up around 3:30 and met up with Mike for coffee. We went to this cute little area near West Portal (I think) and hung out at this cute coffee shop. We chatted for awhile... mostly about Nordstrom gossip stuff and then I went home to lounge around. Can't beat lazy sundays. I think brunch is my new favorite thing. It's so FUN... especially when it's beautiful and sunny outside. Yay!

Mmmm... this week has been pretty uneventful except for the non-conversion stuff. Tomorrow night I might go to a party with Melissa and Saturday is Emily's birthday! YAY! I got my costume stuff last night... so sweet. Cape, tiny glasses that are way too small for my face, crappy plastic wand, and child-sized tie. YES! Haha... I'll be slutty sHarry Potter. SWEET.

Okay, that is all for now. :)

P.S. - kaboodle.com? best shopping website ever.

Halloween Update!

WOOO. Quick Halloween update...

I saw a commercial for Halloween costumes on TV and decided to check out the site since I'm sitting on my ass on the couch with my laptop. AND I found a really cheap Harry Potter robe, glasses, wand, and TIE. I got all these AND express shipping for $60 total! SWEEEET. So! I'll get these by Wednesday or Thursday.

So instead of being Harry Potter... I'll be Sharry Potter.

Robe + button down shirt + tie + v-neck sweater + black pants + glasses + wand + CHRISTY = SHARRY POTTER

Wooo it's finally FRIDAY

Thank goodness! It is finally the end of the week. Not like I've done that much during the week. But it's still nice to look forward to sleeping in on the weekend. Let's see what I've been doing this week...

Monday - work, gym, home, HEROES!

Tuesday - work, gym, home, sleep

Wednesday - work, dinner, tv, sleep

Thursday - work, dinner at Souplantation with Ellen, Bo, and Lawrence (and two of their other coworkers)

Friday - work, left hella early with Ty and Melissa, went to a giant Halloween store (nada), went to a smaller Halloween store in the Lower Haight, went to Kathy J's art show in the Mission, dinner in the Mission, Ice Cream from Bi-Rite Creamery

Today was quite the busy day! Not work related of course... but social thingys. Wee. So Ty and Melissa and I left work at like 3:45 pm and drove up to the city. After heading to the city we went to the Spirit Halloween Store (mega cheapy halloween store) where I found a cute Lucy costume. I didn't buy it tho because while I liked it... I didn't exactly love it. I'm so wishy-washy when it comes to Halloween costumes. *sigh. I can't make up my damn mind. Anywhoo... after Spirit, we went to a smaller Halloween store on Haight St. They had more authentic stuff... I asked if they had a CHP uniform and they DID! Unfortch, they don't let people buy them... they let people RENT them for like $60 for two nights and three days. Since Emily's birthday celebration is on Saturday and actual Halloween is on Wednesday, I'd have to pay for two rentals. Bleh. So no luck there either.

After the Haight costume shop, we headed to the Mission to go see Kathy's art exhibit! It was actually really nice and I enjoyed looking at all the art. Most of the art were paintings and photography. But there was one installation piece... which was weird and artsy fartsy. Hm. Anyway, I felt very smart and hipster-ish for going to an art show. Kathy's art was awesome! Paintings of MEERKATS. Haha, I loved it. After the art show, Ty, Melissa, and I walked around the Mission to find dinner. First we tried Tartine's but it was closed. Boo. Then we went to Luna Park, but it was a 45 minute wait. Bleh. THEN we found this great Chinese place called Yum Yum House! So great. We got wonton soup, veggie potstickers, honey walnut prawns, and meatless kung pao chicken! The tasty surprise was the meatless kung pao chicken! It was just little bits of tofu with some other delicious ingredient. So good.

After dinner we walked down the street to the Bi-Rite Creamery. SF famous for it's deeelicious ice cream. It's organic and natural or whatever and SO delicious. Heaven in my mout. I got a cup of the Honey Lavender ice cream. So good. It was weird but really nice and light. New favorite!

For the weekend... well tomorrow I might just hang out at home. Run a few errands... like look for a damn costume, drop off all my give-away stuff to the Goodwill, etc. Sunday I have plans to have lunch with Melissa (and maybe Ty) in Hayes Valley at Fritz (fancy-ish fry place!) and also meet up with an old Nordstrom buddy, Mike O., for coffee. Sweet!

If only it was raining right now... it'd be so nice and cozy. :)

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Ah lazy weekends...

Wow, it's been quite awhile since I've last updated. I wasn't sure anyone was reading so I kind of just stopped writing. But then I talked to Susie on Friday and she requested an update :) Wee. Haha! SO. What the hell have I been up to? Last week was... well just work and TV. Monday it was Heroes and Thursday it was The Office. I don't think I did anything exciting besides that. Friday night I just hung out at home with Ellen, Phill, and my NEW MACBOOK. My new mac is so cute and awesome. I spent any and all free time over the weekend with my new toy. It's the 13" white macbook (2.16 MHz with the double layer super drive... which is fancy talk for I can burn DVDs! yay!).

Saturday, I woke up early-ish due to macbook excitement and then got ready to go out around 11-ish. Ellen, Phill, and I went to Union Square to eat lunch a the Nordstrom Cafe and then we kinda shopped around for a bit. OK, well I shopped around. The wait for lunch was like 20 minutes and within that 20 minute time period, I was able to buy two tank tops and one shirt in BP. Nice. After lunch we went to Footlocker, Express, and Macy's. Macy's was having a Shop for a Cause event (you buy a raffle ticket for $5 and you get 20% all purchases all day). Unfortunately, Macy's didn't have any really cute clothes to buy. Ellen walked away empty handed and I got a long sweater coat thingy. Although I bought quite a few things, I really only spent like $50 all day. Yay for cheap things! After shopping, we hung out at home for a bit... watched tv and such. And then we went out for a deeelicious CRAB dinner at Nonna Rose's at the wharf. After a very satisfying meal we met up with Bo, Thuy, Jen, and Oranuj at Rouge in Russian Hill. The crowd was pretty ghetto and it was way too crowded but we still had fun dancing.

Sunday I woke up semi-earlyish and was picked up by Melissa around 12:20 pm. We went out to the Haight and had yummy brunch food at Squat & Gobble (I ordered Eggs Benedict... and it was SO yummy). After brunch, we walked around Haight looking for costume stuff. Since I want to be She-Ra, it's a bit difficult finding the necessary accessories. I only ended up buying a can of gold hairspray. Oh well, I still have time! I hope... After Melissa dropped me back off at home, I went to Best Buy to get a laptop case, Nordstrom Rack (for no good reason) and bought a cute cheapy $10 shirt, and then Trader Joe's for some groceries. It's interesting that the only perishable things I bought was a loaf of bread and cheese. Everything else was frozen or canned. Anywhoo, after my errands I just hung out at home with Ellen and Phill. We watched a few episodes of Heroes on dvd and then Ellen made a really yummy clam fettuccine dish. Yum.

And today is just another day at work... traffic was great this morning. Only took me like 55 minutes to get to work instead of an hour and ten. Yay!

Okay, this concludes my post. :)

Finally, a non-Euro post!

Yay~ So, let's see... updates! Last weekend was grrreat. I met up with Melissa, Emily, and MICHELLE (who drove all the way up from Watsonville to hang out) at Nordstrom in downtown SF. We went shopping at Nordies, Club Monaco, Bloomie's, Urban, H&M, and BR in downtown. Then we headed to the Marina and went to Sephora! After Sephora, we had dinner at this little place in the Marina called Eastside West. Melissa and I got fish tacos (which were eh, not too gross but not that delicious) with sweet potato fries (which WERE delicious). Emily got the crab and Michelle got the filet mignon. It was a really nice dinner! After dinner, Michelle had to drive back home so Emily, Melissa, and I went to the Mission to bar hop! So fun. We started out at Elixir (had one drink... well I had a diet coke), then went to Casanova (too crowded, didn't even go in), then Skylark (where there was a big birthday party and they had this GIANT delicious looking chocolate cake), and finally we ended up at Double Dutch. Ty arrived a little after 11 pm and it was a really fun little bar (with a dance floor in the back!). We stayed until like 12:30 am and finally succumbed to the tiredness. Overall, it was a great day! I bought TONS of stuff:

Nordies: bright pink semi-ruffly tank top, cream cardigan, brown top
BR: white/brown stripped sweater
Sephora: Stila illuminating moisturizer, Stila concealer stick

Sunday, I had dim sum with Andrew, Kathy, and Steven in Chinatown. We tried a new place on Broadway. It was hella crowded so we didn't get seated for 30 minutes, but the food was pretty good. I still like the ghetto place I usually go to on Pacific. Hm. Oh well, after dim sum we walked around Chinatown. I got a little dan tat (egg custard) from the famous Golden Gate Bakery and then I got some bread too! Yum. Come to think of it, I haven't even eaten that bread yet. Ooops. After Chinatown, I went to Target in Daly City to get some essentials. I just kind of hung around the house in the evening, watching Family Guy and the Simpsons. Later tho, Ellen, Phill, and I got bored... so we went to the market and got coke and chocolate ice cream for YUMMY coke floats. We were pretty dang hyper after that and were trying to do all these exercise moves on Ellen's new yoga mat. We're crazy.

Monday, it was back to work as usual. Ellen, Phill, Bo, and Lawrence came to visit me for dinner *yum and then after Ellen and I just went home and watched tv (I introduced her to Meerkat Manor... such an addicting show). Also, Ellen and I bought stuff from AE.com. Wee! I got myself a PJ dress, a really cute navy shirt, and a grey cardigan hoodie!

Yesterday, I just had work, then the gym, then dinner, then home. I actually went to bed at like 10 pm and got 9 hours of sleep. It was awesome, I'm looking for a repeat tonight! Today, again... just work, the gym, and such. My life is pretty boring. Okay! That is it for now. :) Yay non-Europe post!